Case project 2-1: Researching virus attacks Virus: Virus is a type of malicious software malware that replicates by reproducing itself to another program, document or computer boot sector. Current viruses: - Android/FakeApp - Backdoor-FFBM - HTML/Neutrino.e - HTML/Iframe.gen.w - Exploit-SWF.bd - Linux/Gates Damages caused by computer virus: A computer virus is designed to self-replicate, self-install, and attack the root functions and system of different programs without authorization or the user’s knowledge. Virusesmainly affect the root of a computer system.Virus can destroy and damage most important part of our hard drive, the boot sector, where information about all files has been stored. Viruses may alter directory paths and may change …show more content…
These attackers have proven to be a very successful way for a criminal to get inside of many organizations. Social engineer may call an organization’s for asking help and pretending them to be an employee who has forgotten their password. Help desk staff will frequently assist this helpless to log on remotely and reset their password for them, without ever verifying their identity. Different mail attachments and web links are being very popular among social engineering. Reasons people fall for social engineering techniques are: Social engineers make public dupe every day because of unawareness about social engineering techniques.Attackers use various social engineering techniques on innocent victims and their body posture, speech and confidence which convince people to trust upon engineers show confidence in drawing attention of people with practical approach. Social engineers offer something that creates excitement to grab offer and entice to put blind trust on attackers with confidence. They use rumor that seems convincing and adorable to users. They put valid reasons and people always listen to such requests. They take advantage of people’s fear and
Bob is at the skate park, showing off his skills as a skateboarder. With one wrong move, he fell off of his skateboard, and his knee scrapped on the concrete, causing a big gash on his knee. A virus enters in the knee, and it has a mission. Its mission is to infect every organ in Bob's body.
When you see security guards, cameras, and full body scanners, your safety is not even close to assured in that building or location. Cryptographer and Privacy Specialist, Bruce Schneier, describes this idea as what he calls “Security Theater”. Schneier uses explanation of logical and emotional ideas that factor into our perception of how safe we are. His use of these appeals help him convey his purpose to the audience and effectively show the audience the importance of what Schneier is saying.
Social Engineering: What It Is and How to Help Protect Yourself. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/socialengineering-whatis.aspx
At the Aim Higher College there have been recently discovered malware on the campus systems that are due to many recent attacks. I used an Anti-virus protection software called AVG on the computer systems on campus and ran a whole computer scan. The results came back very quick of numbers of malware being high and medium priorities that these should not be taken lightly. Furthermore, the scan found many viruses, Trojans, and malicious software and applications.
They make themselves familiar with those that they want to exploit. Unknowingly, that person lowers their guard, and eventually falls prey to the attacker. People react differently to people that they know or that they have been around. An example would be a social engineer tailgating into a secure area behind someone that they have become familiar with (“The Official Social Engineering Portal,”
There is also a set of programs that are related to viruses by virtue of their
Malicious software in short known as Malware. It is also known as computer Contaminant. Similar to biological parasite, malware also reside in a Host. Malware will get installed on host without user’s consent. Generally a software is considered malware based on the intent of the creator...
According to Pfleeger (1997, p179) A virus is a program that can pass on malicious code to other nonmalicious programs by modifying them. The term virus arises because the affected program acts like a biological virus: modification of good programs is like a virus that infects other healthy subjects.
There are many types of frauds out there and the internet is making them easier. People are easily deceived because they forget that behind their computer screen is another human being who may not be who they say they are. Social engineering is a type of masquerade, which means tricking people into providing sensitive information or physical access to resources (Smith). A mind game expert named Brian Brushwood talked about how to get people to do what you want by using four basic sociological and psychological tactics.
Social engineers or criminals are individuals who take advantage of human behaviour to pull off a scam and aren't worried about a badge system. They will just walk right in and confidently ask someone to help them get inside. 'Social Engineering' is a threat, often overlooked but regularly exploited; to take advantage of what has long been considered the 'weakest link' in the security chain of an organization, the 'human factor'. Social engineers draw their motivation from following elements:-
Virus is one of the most common malware. Unlike spyware, virus is largely designed to harm useful programs or wreck down an entire operating system. There are many ways through which virus may enter a computer. The most common way is via email attachments. A...
What is the “MALWARE”? A malware refers to software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system. In Spanish, "mal" is a prefix that means "bad," making the term "bad ware" .Malware includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Viruses, for example, can cause havoc on a computer's hard drive by deleting files or directory information. Spyware can gather data from a user's system without the user knowing it. This can include anything from the Web pages a user visits to personal information, such as credit card numbers.
The Art of exploring various security breaches is termed as Hacking.Computer Hackers have been around for so many years. Since the Internet became widely used in the World, We have started to hear more and more about hacking. Only a few Hackers, such as Kevin Mitnick, are well known.In a world of Black and White, it’s easy to describe the typical Hacker. A general outline of a typical Hacker is an Antisocial, Pimple-faced Teenage boy. But the Digital world has many types of Hackers.Hackers are human like the rest of us and are, therefore, unique individuals, so an exact profile is hard to outline.The best broad description of Hackers is that all Hackers aren’t equal. Each Hacker has Motives, Methods and Skills. But some general characteristics can help you understand them. Not all Hackers are Antisocial, PimplefacedTeenagers. Regardless, Hackers are curious about Knowing new things, Brave to take steps and they areoften very Sharp Minded..
In today’s days malware is designated as a software which aims to disturb a computer with the consent or permission of the owner. This term “Malware” is used by computer professionals to describe a varied forms of destructive, annoying and intrusive software code. This word “Malware” is used to indicate all types of malware which include a true set of viruses.
There are hundreds of thousands of viruses in the world and they usually designed for different purpose or objectives. Most of the computer viruses written in the early and mid-1980s were limited to self-reproduction and had no specific damage routine built into the code, but after more and more programmer acquainted with virus programming, they made viruses that can modify the data or even destroy them on infected computer. A co...